Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
Source: Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton (See also Squire)
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.